Community remembers pregnant woman stabbed to death with sword

JACKSON TWP., Pa. -- (WPMT) -- Neighbors, friends and co-workers gathered Sunday night in the neighborhood where a York County woman was reportedly stabbed to death by her husband.

Police said 25-year-old Diana Ziegler was killed by her husband, 35-year-old John Ziegler III, on the deck of their home on Ledge Drive in Jackson Township.

John admitted to officers he struck Diana with a sword at least three times on Friday afternoon.

Deb Mayer, the director of nursing for Dallastown Nursing Center, and a co-worker of Diana's, said, "When we found out it's like a bad dream and you keep waking up and realizing it's not a bad dream. It's real."

Diana was 24-weeks pregnant. Co-workers said earlier that Friday she was scheduled for an ultrasound.